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Lettere Ptilt'm No. 64,673, Zatedlrlfay 14, 186i'.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE WATER-GLOSETS, 0R ANOSMIA.

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TO ALI. WHOM IT MAY GONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES G. HOLMES, native residentof the city of Charleston,in the State of' South Carolina, have invented a new and ilnproved mode of preventing the escape of' gas from a portable commode or water-closet, which invention, from the Greek (m, uu'zfhout, osmz'a, smell, or anosmos, z'noclorous, I have called Anosniia; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top View of Ythe bucket. i

j Figure 2, a central vertical section of tTiesame.

Figure 3', a central vertical section with cover in position and chamber in place.; andl Figure 4, a similar section exhibiting the inner bucket or cover.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a bucket or other water-tight vessel, A, of suitable form and size 'to hold'on the bottom o1' I'on a suitable stand, B, within the bucket, an ordinary chamber-pot or any other vessel designed to receive the urine and faeces of a person using it, and after removing a cover orA seat, D, arranged for convenience in the ina-nner shown in the drawings, then to cover up the vessel containing the urine and faeces by means of a bucket, C, lig. 4, of'mctal or any other suitable material, se that the open end of such cover shall be immersed in water or other fluid placed Within the bucket which contains the pot. For convenience a handle is attached to the out-side bucket, as in ordinary slop or other movable buckets.

I am aware that a water-packing has been before used in vessels ot' this description by means of a groove or trough around the upper portion of the vessel, which, after being filled with water, is intended to receive a flange which is attached to the cover. But this trough being attached to the vessel is liable to becone polluted with the fces, and is, besides, from its position and shallowness of depth, very liable to be spilled unless the vessel is moved with great caution. Both these objections, and especially the latter, are wholly obviatcal by the arrangementl proposed by me.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 'is--` I. In a portable water-closet, constructed substantially as described, I claim the use of an exterior upright vessel, and of an interior inverted vessel so arranged as to prevent the escape of any fetid odor by meansoi' a water-packing extending to the lower portion of lthe exterior vessel, substantially as described. I

2. I claim, as a new arliele ot manufacture, a portable Water-closet which is rendered inodorous by means of a closed inverted vessel, with its water-packing `which Iextends to or below the bottom of the vessel which is to contain the faeces, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a 'portable water-closet, Ielaim the renderingof the same ctl'ective by means of an external vessel, an internal inverted vessel packed with water, while the vessel to receive the faeces is sepa-rate and distinct from either of the o thcrs, substantially as described.

JAMES Gr.` HOLMES.

Witnesses J. H. ,PHILLrrs GEO. C. LAMnRrGn'r. 

